The rise of great families, other essays, and stories . dances were always followed by aluxurious banquet. When the Duke of Norfolk cameto Norwich, he was greeted like a king returning tohis capital. The bells of the cathedral and of SaintPeter Mancroft were rung : the guns of the castle werefired; and the mayor and aldermen waited on theirillustrious fellow citizen with complimentary ad-dresses. What Howard is to Eno-land, Douglas is to Scot-land. I HE first title on the Union Roll afterthat of E,othesay, inherited by thePrince of Wales, is Hamilton, nowpossessed by the representative of thei
The rise of great families, other essays, and stories . dances were always followed by aluxurious banquet. When the Duke of Norfolk cameto Norwich, he was greeted like a king returning tohis capital. The bells of the cathedral and of SaintPeter Mancroft were rung : the guns of the castle werefired; and the mayor and aldermen waited on theirillustrious fellow citizen with complimentary ad-dresses. What Howard is to Eno-land, Douglas is to Scot-land. I HE first title on the Union Roll afterthat of E,othesay, inherited by thePrince of Wales, is Hamilton, nowpossessed by the representative of theillustrious house of Douglas. Of theHamiltons, the heir-male is the Dukeof Abercorn, and the heir-general, theEarl of Derby. The Dukedom of Hamilton descendsto its present holder, Douglas, by the special limita-tion of the patent of creation. The family of Douglas, long the rival of royalty, hasbeen, time out of mind, connected with the first noblesof Scotland, England, and France; and it has inter-married no less than eleven times with the roval house. THE RISE OF GREAT FASIILIES. II of Scotland, and once with that of England. There arefew races in Europe so dignified as it, whether we con-sider its long line of illustrious ancestors, its princelyinheritance, or its historic renown. The originalsettlement of the clan was far north, in Morayshire;and the pedigree Ls deduced from Theobald le Fleming,to whom the Abbot of Kelso gi-anted lands on theWater of Douglas, whence came the far-famed name ofhis descendants. At Bannockburn, the centre of the Scottish army wascommanded by the good Sir James Douglas, and onthat famous field, under the royal standard, he wascreated a knight banneret. The good Sir James, longafter, journeyed to Jerusalem, for the purpose of depo-siting Bruces heart in the sepulchre of Our Lord; andthe event has ever since been commemorated in the armsof Douglas. James, the second Earl of Douglas, wonOtterburn (Chevy Chase) against Percy of Northum-berland, but f
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